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Wednesday, April 10, 2013

ARTICLE: The future of municipal planning

the politically polarizing attempt to figure out how to balance the actual municipal value beween the shorter-term, private development-focussed, regulatory-driven, fee generating ‘Planning Services’ versus its longer-term, civic building focussed, policy-driven, subsidized ‘Comprehensive Planning.’
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